Jimmy Vesey? Sure, why not?

Tim Murray has it exactly right. You trade for the rights to a player who played with your hot young player, Jack Eichel. You’ve successfully negotiated with his agent in the past, as he also reps Eichel. You had an abundance of picks in the third round, which only produce NHL players (50 games or more in a career, so a low bar at that) at about a 30% clip. GMTM takes a small risk that he and Jack Eichel will be more persuasive than David Poile. No matter what happens, it’s worth it to give it a spin. Something else that might help is using all of that cap room to snag one of he biggest trade targets/free agents coming up. Since the exclusive negotiating period extends after July 1, Vesey seeing Buffalo making more savvy moves at the draft or in free agency could be the tipping point in his decision, no matter what he says now.